Clearing Lake Lot

[JustChilling19]

Hey All,

Wife and I bought a 1/2 acre lake lot. Needs to be cleared. Does anyone that’s been there done that have tips or suggestions? Any equipment for rent at a reasonable rate? Lot is at lac sante in the Stillwater Bay Area if that makes a difference. About a hour and a half north east of Edmonton between Two Hills and St. Paul.

Once cleared getting power power from the road to the lot (and trailer) will be the next priority.

Cheers,
Tyler

 

[Tchetek]

Buy a good chainsaw. Cut down the trees. Wait for fire ban to be over. Burn limbs. Split and pile the rest for fire wood. (Needs to be split or it will rot). Rent a splitter if needed.


Then hire a hoe to rip out all the stumps. Tune up your grade, and dig you a trench for power line.

 

[kanedog]

Rent a rubber track skidsteer with a bucket and also a grapple bucket. Clear stack and burn. Enjoy the project!

 

[Stg2Suby]

I'm sure you've done your research but just FYI I had friends who built a cabin on Lac Sante and got dinged really hard on property taxes, like $6000/yr or something ridiculous.

edit: sorry I guess this comment is a little out of context, the thought just popped into my head when I saw Lac Sante

 

[SHREK1]

Hey All,

Wife and I bought a 1/2 acre lake lot. Needs to be cleared. Does anyone that’s been there done that have tips or suggestions? Any equipment for rent at a reasonable rate? Lot is at lac sante in the Stillwater Bay Area if that makes a difference. About a hour and a half north east of Edmonton between Two Hills and St. Paul.

Once cleared getting power power from the road to the lot (and trailer) will be the next priority.

Cheers,
Tyler

when you cut your trees down leave the stump a couple feet up, makes pushing the root ball out much easier.

 

[Lunch_Box]

Another option is to bring in a muncher to turn it to mulch. That's what my wife and I had to do on our property as we couldn't burn.

 

[Summitric]

another option is to bring in a muncher to turn it to mulch. That's what my wife and i had to do on our property as we couldn't burn.

stump grinder?

 

[Lunch_Box]

stump grinder?

No this was a dedicated mulching machine. I know you can get attachments for skid steers, but this will take down a standing tree then mulch it. Just mark out the trees you want gone and let the guy go at it.

 

[sirkdev]

http://www.mulchco.com/

depends on volume required but I have seen the big rear mount on D9 ‘s or the Bron’s Change landscapes in an afternoon

 

[Tchetek]

Another option is to bring in a muncher to turn it to mulch. That's what my wife and I had to do on our property as we couldn't burn.

My experience with a mulcher is it is a very temporary clearing. It only clears what is above grade and the roots and stumps below the surface spout up quick.

 

[Lunch_Box]

My experience with a mulcher is it is a very temporary clearing. It only clears what is above grade and the roots and stumps below the surface spout up quick.

It all depends on what the county allows. I had plans to cut all my trees, pile them in the middle of my clearing and have a big controlled fire. In Leduc County if you're in a subdivision thats not allowed. So I no choice but to mulch then have equipment come in and get the site down to clay.

 

[armascott]

Old topic but I have a somewhat related question. I have roughly a 30’x40’ area at the back corner of my lot I’m hoping to put in a gravel pad for extra parking. The area was cleared about 5 years ago but has not been kept up, the previous owners dropped all the trees but left the stumps (roughly a dozen decent sized poplar stumps). I now need to mow down small brush etc. The area is a bit low and needs to come up roughly 4-6”. Do I bother removing stumps? Or should I just grade with fill then top it off gravel?

 

[pfi572]

Don’t cover over the stumps ,new growth and topsoil.
Any utilities buried in the area of parking lot ?
If not you can dig a trench 4-5 m wide inside your property line and use the good material for pad and put strippings into trench and cap with good material .
Track hoe works best for this .
If area is flat and you decide to just haul it out try and get trucks to bring in material as they are hauling out so they are loaded both ways .
Anyone close that needs fill as really helps for your costs as well .